• Tag Line: Attitude is everything.
• Director: Beeban Kidron
• Writers: Douglas Carter Beane
• Release Date: 8 September 1995 (USA)
• MPPA Rating: PG-13 for subject matter involving men living in drag, a brief scene of spousal abuse and some language
• Parents Guide: ~~View content advisory for parents~~
• Genre: Comedy
• Runtime: 109 min.
• Awards: 0 wins and 3 nominations
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After Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson win a major New York drag contest and a trip to Hollywood, they are persuaded to take the inexperienced drag princess Chi-Chi with them. They hire a beat-up old Cadillac and set off for Los Angeles, but their car breaks down in a small town in the middle of nowhere. With just their wits and an endless supply of garish costumes, they transform the town and everyone who lives there--until homophobic cop Sheriff Dollard catches up with them...

• Several character names are taken from classic literature. Virgil and Beatrice appear in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy while Billy Budd and Crazy Elija appear in Herman Melville works, Billy Budd and Moby Dick respectively.

• The title of the movie came from an autographed picture of Julie Newmar that author Douglas Carter Beane saw on the wall of a Times Square Chinese restaurant, the China Bowl, in the mid 1980s.

• The name of one of the towns, Bala Cynwyd, is a Philadelphia suburb, where executive producer Mitchell Kohn attended junior high school.

• Before filming the scene in which Sheriff Dollard (played by Chris Penn) pulls the car over at the roadside, Patrick Swayze secretly placed a corn cob down the front of his underwear. Penn's expression of shock upon putting his hand up Swayze's dress is not faked.

• According to the three male leads, upon completion of filming they burned their costumes, wigs and make-up because it took so long each morning to "become women."

• Opened in the #1 spot the weekend it opened, with approx $4M.

• Mel Gibson briefly flirted with the idea of playing the Patrick Swayze part.

• According to John Leguizamo in his autobiography, his frequent improvisation angered Patrick Swayze so much that Swayze tried to punch him in the face.

• Gary Oldman claims he was originally offered one of the lead drag roles but decided he didn't want to do another part that required extensive make-up after his experiences on Dracula (1992).